Alt text: a post from @lolennui.bsky.social that says: Once my German friend asked what creative people do without arts grants and other support in the US and I felt like a parent trying to explain to their kid that the puppies can die sometimes

Source: https://x.com/demsocjohnbrown/status/1815156447866753398

source: https://x.com/DeathMetalV/status/1815156155586363523

source: https://x.com/joshsorbe/status/1815117277177504118

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17860442

@KimIversenShow

Is this like when Putin was dying of cancer?

@GlobalPressCorp

BREAKING: A verified source has informed the Global Press team that Joe Biden is currently in hospice care and is unlikely to survive the night.

Source: https://x.com/KimIversenShow/status/1815601718178033845

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17858142

@briebriejoy

"One American doctor told us he even reviewed CT scans to confirm what he saw because he quote, 'didn't believe that this many children could be admitted to a single hospital with gunshot wounds to the head.'"

@SMohyeddin

Surgeon, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, on what he witnessed in his first month in Gaza. On @CBSSunday

“No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the world’s best sniper.”

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Source: https://x.com/briebriejoy/status/1815413439491371148

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17858027

@ajamubaraka

As Negros celebrate another Black face fronting for white power, the occupation & brutality that oppressed people are subjected to in this backward, racist settler state continues. The very fact that these occupation forces are in our communities & homes is an indignity.

@johnbryanesq

GRAPHIC: Cop shoots Sonya Massey for holding a pot of steaming water, afterwards falsely claiming she “came at me with boiling water.”

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[NSFW] Direct video link: https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1815480152010248192/vid/avc1/1920x1080/eUFrBnK15EZm0OwA.mp4

Source: https://x.com/ajamubaraka/status/1815546848092049492

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17857912

@ChrisLynnHedges

My thoughts on Biden dropping out:

Joe Biden was discarded by the same billionaire class he assiduously served throughout his political career. Barely able to stumble his way through the words on a Teleprompter and not always cognizant of what is happening around him, his billionaire supporters pulled the plug. He was their creature – he has been in federal office for 47 years - from start to finish. He was used as a foil to defeat Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primaries and was anointed as the candidate in 2024 in a Soviet-style primary campaign. The billionaire class will now anoint someone else. Democratic Party voters are stage props in this political farce. Donald Trump, unlike Kamala Harris or any other apparatchik the billionaire class selects as a presidential candidate, has a genuine and committed base, however fascistic.

In Hitler and the Germans, the political philosopher Eric Vogelin dismisses the idea that Hitler — gifted in oratory and political opportunism but poorly educated and vulgar — mesmerized and seduced the German people. The Germans, he writes, supported Hitler and the “grotesque, marginal figures” surrounding him because he embodied the pathologies of a diseased society, one beset by economic collapse and hopelessness. Voegelin defines stupidity as a “loss of reality.” The loss of reality means a “stupid” person cannot “rightly orient his action in the world, in which he lives.” The demagogue, who is always an idiote, is not a freak or social mutation. The demagogue expresses the society’s zeitgeist.

Biden and the Democratic Party are responsible for this zeitgeist. They orchestrated the deindustrialization of the United States, ensuring that 30 million workers lost their jobs in mass layoffs. As I write in America, The Farewell Tour, this assault on the working class created a crisis that forced the ruling elites to devise a new political paradigm. Trumpeted by a compliant media, this paradigm shifted its focus from the common good to race, crime and law and order. Biden was at the epicenter of this paradigm shift. Those undergoing profound economic and political change were told that their suffering stemmed not from rampant militarism and corporate greed but from a threat to national integrity. The old consensus that buttressed New Deal programs and the welfare state was attacked as enabling criminal Black youth, “welfare queens” and other alleged social parasites. This opened the door to a faux populism, begun by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, which supposedly championed family values, traditional morality, individual autonomy, law and order, the Christian faith and the return to a mythical past, at least for white Americans. The Democratic Party, especially under Bill Clinton and Biden, became largely indistinguishable from the establishment Republican Party to which it is now allied.

The Democratic Party refuses to accept its responsibility for the capture of democratic institutions by a rapacious oligarchy, the grotesque social inequality, the cruelty of predatory corporations and an unchecked militarism. The Democrats will anoint another amoral politician, probably Harris, to use as a mask for outsized corporate greed, the folly of endless war, the facilitation of genocide and the assault on our most basic civil liberties. The Democrats, tools of Wall Street, gave us Trump, and the 74 million people who voted for him in 2020. They look set to give us Trump again. God help us.

@JoeBiden

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.

Source: https://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1815425971643986009

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17855832

@SocialistMMA

Kamala Harris in the primaries only had 1% black support

This is the person liberals think will turn out black voters?

KHIVE was a bunch of white women cosplaying as black. Black people HATE Kamala Harris

Source: https://x.com/SocialistMMA/status/1815365372050108603

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17827239

@Jaybefaunt

So... If she was to win the Democratic nomination and the general election (not likely but whatever)

I know for a certainty that she will continue to fund the extermination of the Palestinian people and we should call her #KamalaTheKiller from now on.

@SFTBIB

Clearly cackling Kamala governs for Israel instead of Americans...

Source: https://x.com/Jaybefaunt/status/1815210896798470440